1druid1 wrote:
Hi All
I have been working on my 1:100 Bismarck for over a year now and the progress has been slow to almost a grinding halt, my hull is mostly done, have some sizing issues to fix but really haven't had much time to work on it. Getting close to the new year has giving me a little push to get on with this build and I will try to post pictures as I go from now on.
One of the things I am looking at just now is the hull decking which is driving me a little crazy. I have worked out from the Hans Gally plans and some other info that the deck planks are roughly 60mm x 1.2mm at 1:100 scale (6m by 12cm in actual size) please correct me if I am wrong on this.
So far I have tried a couple of methods Cutting strips of thin wood and using a charcoal pencil and cutting thin strips of Balsa wood and using black electrical tape to simulate the caulk. However even using a Balsa cutter I just cannot seem to get a perfectly straight edge so my decking attempts look terrible and not straight.
The tape method looks the best but its tedious trying to stick tape to an edge that is 0.8mm thick.
Because the decking planks are so small I am struggling to get them straight, so looking for any advice on cutting and aligning decking planks on this scale and other methods of simulating the caulk.
Are 109 and Capitão Norbert still around as there builds haven't been updated in a while and were both awesome examples of discipline to the craft.
Cheers
Druid
I have been building a 1/192 Missouri. I used 1/32 x 1/64 strips to simulate the planking. All different size strips are available from
http://www.northeasternscalelumber.com/. They come in 24" lengths so you can cut them to any length you want. I used to rub a pencil along the edge to simulate the caulking strip, but I found at that scale, it really doesn't make a difference in appearance when fully planked.
Hope this helps.
Larry